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2025

Reading Goals & Challenges

Besides hopefully avoiding falling into reading slumps, I love focusing on the reading challenges that I participate in every year. I know there’s been a lot of chatter of the amount of reading that happens, but we all know there’s better things to worry about.

Anyways, I’ve always my reading goal around the 100 mark and I tend to go way over that, but for me, that’s a good baseline. Setting this goal and become a rather reliable one and something that I don’t stress over. Besides my annual reading goals that I partake in through The StoryGraph, I’ve added 3 additional challenges. And then I jotted down some personal intentions towards my reading year. Let’s go over them!

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Meet Malia

book blogger & mood reader

I started reading a little bit here and there since I was a child, but it wasn’t until college where I started to read more for leisure. I knew right away that romance was where my heart was set and I’ve been a passionate romance book lover ever since. Nora Roberts and Twilight were truly the start of it all and we’ve expanded our horizons since then.

Paranormal romance will forever be my number one, and contemporary has slightly fallen to the side. However, add a bit of angst and perhaps have it read as a dark romance, I’m there. I’ve been trying for years to get into historical romance, but have yet to find the book that works for me.

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Podcast & Book Recommendations | Episode 5 : DNFs & Tropes
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Podcast & Book Recommendations | Episode 5 : DNFs & Tropes

A new podcast episode is up, what brings you to DNF a book or what are your favorite/least favorite book tropes? What’s your stance on DNFing a book? I’ll have to admit that I haven’t been doing…

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He’d never once been tempted to break his oath… until he met her. Michael Young has only ever cared about two things: being the best cardiothoracic surgeon and Ascending into the House of Atlas on his thirty-third birthday….

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Are you a mafia romance and dark romance reader? Check out this mafia series recommendation! If you’re coming here from my most recent podcast, welcome. Or if you have no idea what I’m talking about, I did…

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#RSFave Book Review | Grim and Bear It by Juliette Cross

Not even Death can take her from him. Clara Savoie is so confused. She is absolutely positive that Henry Blackwater is practically in love with her. But for some strange reason, he won’t even ask her on…

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#RSFave Audio Review | Both Feet in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

Cat disappeared from Bones’ life to protect him, but this Master vampire will keep his promise to find her. Two hundred years of bounty hunting made Bones the best at what he does, yet it’s still taken…

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Book Recommendations | My 2022 5-Star Romance Reads

A bit late getting this post up, but it’s here! I had a grand total of 15 5-star reads in 2022. I definitely expected more, but it was kind of a lackluster reading year. I dove back…

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